Systems and methods for session-based resource assignment, delivery, performance management and measurement in a networked environment

A method for serving a manifest file of an adaptive streaming video, the method comprising:

• receiving a request for the manifest file of the adaptive streaming video from a requesting device, wherein the adaptive streaming video is encoded at a plurality of reference bitrates and each of the encoded reference bitrates is divided into a plurality of segments to generate a plurality of video segment files, and wherein the manifest file includes a plurality of universal resource locators (URLs) that reference a set of video segment files that are encoded at a particular reference bitrate for the adaptive streaming video;
• identifying a source manifest file based on the request, the source manifest file indicating the set of video segment files that are encoded at the particular reference bitrate for the adaptive streaming video;
• generating an issued manifest file, to be served in response to the request for the manifest file, and based on the source manifest file, the issued manifest file including a first subset of URLs referencing a first subset of video segment files from the set of video segment files, wherein the first subset of URLs are interspersed in the issued manifest file among a second subset of URLs referencing a second subset of video segment files from the set of video segment files, wherein the first subset of video segment files referenced by the first subset of URLs are hosted within a first domain associated with a system, and wherein the second subset of video segment files referenced by the second subset of URLs are hosted within a second domain associated with an infrastructure service provider that is different from the first domain;
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• transmitting the issued manifest file to the requesting device as a response to the request.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium, having instructions stored therein, which when executed cause a computer to perform a set of operations comprising:

• receiving a request for a manifest file of an adaptive streaming video from a requesting device, wherein the adaptive streaming video is encoded at a plurality of reference bitrates and each of the encoded reference bitrates is divided into a plurality of segments to generate a plurality of video segment files, and wherein the manifest file includes a plurality of universal resource locators (URLs) that reference a set of video segment files that are encoded at a particular reference bitrate for the adaptive streaming video;
• identifying a source manifest file based on the request, the source manifest file indicating the set of video segment files that are encoded at the particular reference bitrate for the adaptive streaming video;
• generating an issued manifest file, to be served in response to the request for the manifest file, and based on the source manifest file, the issued manifest file including a first subset of URLs referencing a first subset of video segment files from the set of video segment files, wherein the first subset of URLs are interspersed in the issued manifest file among a second subset of URLs referencing a second subset of video segment files from the set of video segment files, wherein the first subset of video segment files referenced by the first subset of URLs are hosted within a first domain associated with a system, and wherein the second subset of video segment files referenced by the second subset of URLs are hosted within a second domain associated with an infrastructure service provider that is different from the first domain;
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• transmitting the issued manifest file to the requesting device as a response to the request.